USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The overseer on a plantation was the “middle man, ” whose responsibilities included the management of the enslaved laborers according to the master’s orders.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to real estate and personal estate values in the 1860 U.S. Census, the overwhelming majority of employers who hired the enslaved were lower and middle class.

Detailed explanation-3: -On large plantations, the person who directed the daily work of the slaves was the overseer, usually a white man but occasionally an enslaved black man-a “driver"-promoted to the position by his master.

Detailed explanation-4: -Plantation owner An individual who owned a plantation was known as a planter. Historians of the antebellum South have generally defined “planter” most precisely as a person owning property (real estate) and 20 or more slaves.